‘A
Short History of the Sikhs’ ivc iliKaf hY
: ‘The Guru managed to reach Talvandi Sabo, now called
Damdama or resting place. Here he stayed for nine months with an influential
Sikh named Dalla and made it a great seat of learnig. It is often described as
Guru’s kashi. The Guru, while here, is said by some later writers, to have
reproduced whole Adi Granth from memory, and completed it by adding the hymns
omposed by his father. This miracle of memory is not recorded by the Gurbilas or
the Surj Prakash. That the hymans of the ninth Guru were incorporated here is
contradicted by the fact that there is a copy of Holy Granth at Patna, bearing
the date 1748 BK.(1691AD.) containing the hymans of Guru Teg bahadur in there
proper places. There is another such copy found at Dacca, which was written even
than this in 1675AD. In the first year of Guru Gobind Singh’s accession’.